January T21

On the fieldA veritable feast of cricket! I think there was pretty much something going on every single day (and most mornings), so I got into a nice little routine of working in the living room in the morning whilst a match was on and then heading upstairs to my desk in the afternoon. A

My origin story

The first definitive memory I have of watching cricket is the end of Mark Butcher’s masterful, match-winning knock of 173* against Australia at Headingley in 2001; I’m English – of course it had to be an Ashes match. I obviously knew of cricket well before this: when summer came round in my school days the